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Album Reviews

Cruel World

Holly Humberstone
Cruel World

Apr 10, 2026 Web Exclusive

On Cruel World, Holly Humberstone delivers her most cohesive and emotionally intelligent album yet, blending intimate storytelling, reflective growth, and dark pop textures into a powerful exploration of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery.

Bongo Fury: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
Bongo Fury: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Apr 09, 2026 Web Exclusive

Bongo Fury lives on as a document of a brief but furiously entertaining collaboration Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Expanding on the original album, the 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition offers an additional 48 tracks that include live and rare studio material.

Creature of Habit

Courtney Barnett
Creature of Habit

Apr 08, 2026 Web Exclusive

Almost a decade after Courtney Barnett captured our imagination with the wry, hyper-observant voices of her over-active interior life comes her fourth album, Creature of Habit, where she’s now joined by an equally formidable external chorus of people offering unwelcome counsel.

Classic Interviews

Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor
Comics Artist Talks About Wizzywig, his Hacker-Culture Graphic Novel

Oct 17, 2011 Web Exclusive

Pittsburgh’s Ed Piskor, 29, recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, and he says it’ll be available online for a “little bit of time” before being given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story of Kevin Phenicle, aka “Boingthump,” a phone phreaker/hacker during the early days of high-tech computing who is sort of a pastiche of several real-life phreakers/hackers.

Comic Book Reviews

The Woodchipper

The Woodchipper
Drawn & Quarterly

Feb 27, 2026 Web Exclusive

Joe Ollmann (Fictional Father) loves short stories. From Saki to Shirley Jackson, he’s always found comfort in the concise format’s twist endings. His new book is a collection of compact comic tales full of unexpected conclusions.

Book Reviews

Repetition

Vigdis Hjorth
Repetition

Mar 09, 2026

In this short novel, acclaimed Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of some of her best work and a story of a family hiding a vicious secret that ultimately tears it apart.

Interviews

Hannah Cohen on “Earthstar Mountain”

Hannah Cohen on “Earthstar Mountain”

Mar 19, 2026 Web Exclusive

Hannah Cohen’s Earthstar Mountain, her newest release and the strongest of her career, is a collection of songs that are contemplative (“Dusty”), defiant (“Draggin’”), delicate (“Mountain”), ethereal (“Earthstar”), and even a funky groove (“Summer Sweat”).

Come Together: The Story Behind War Child’s Original “HELP” Album

Come Together: The Story Behind War Child’s Original “HELP” Album

Mar 05, 2026 Issue #72 - The ‘90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore

The war in Bosnia had been raging on for four years when news of the Srebrenica massacre broke in July 1995. By then, 250,000 people had lost their lives and two million more had been displaced. But the long drawn out conflict had rendered most desensitized or apathetic.

Pleased to meet you

Holly Humberstone on Her New Album “Cruel World”

Apr 07, 2026

In this interview, Holly Humberstone opens up about her superb new album Cruel World, exploring nostalgia, songwriting, and the personal experiences shaping her most ambitious work yet.

Lists

Top 20 TV Shows of 2025

Jan 22, 2026

Television in 2025 was, admittedly, not as consistently strong as viewers have come to expect. As mergers continue to threaten quality, authentically prestige television still exists—and in enough abundance that, just three weeks into the new year, it’s worth taking stock of what rose to the top for us at Under the Radar.

The list is a mixed bag, which is very much a good thing. We love our Apple TV+ and our HBO Max. From dystopian dramas and bleak dramas to darkly comedic entries, sci-fi extremes, and procedurals turned on their heads, there’s plenty here to get stuck into. Below is our Top 20, with a handful of honorable mentions bringing up the rear. —Lily Moayeri (Under the Radar’s television editor)

Live reviews

Idlewild @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK,  April 7, 2026

Idlewild @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK,  April 7, 2026

Apr 09, 2026 By Dom Gourlay

Idlewild kicked off their UK tour with a career spanning set at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms earlier this week (Tuesday 7th April)

Blog

The Best Albums of February 2026 – Stream Them All Here

The Best Albums of February 2026 – Stream Them All Here

Mar 04, 2026 By Mark Redfern

Last year we launched our Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month. Now here is a roundup of February 2026’s best albums. We have included Bandcamp or Spotify embeds (some albums aren’t on Bandcamp) for each album and links to any reviews or interviews we did to support the release.




Cinema Reviews

Wasteman

Wasteman

Apr 13, 2026 Web Exclusive

Backed by a gut-wrenching turn from David Jonsson’s, Wasteman is a grimy, claustrophobic prison thriller distinctly of the social media age.

Television Reviews

The Lady

The Lady
Britbox, March 18, 2026

Mar 21, 2026 Web Exclusive

A frothy, distinctly British watch led by Mia McKenna-Bruce who is a revelation in the titular role of a former dresser of the Duchess of York turned convicted murderer.